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Hi there, figured I have been sitting in the bushes, so to speak, long
enough, and I think I will introduce myself to everyone on the list.
My name is William (Bill) G. Benford and am close to 50 years old.  I
am married to a much younger (13 years) wife and we have three great
kids, a step-daughter 17, step-son 14 and son 10 years of age.  The
boys have shown an interest in Paleontology, but my daughter thinks
it's boring. ("Bill, this is so boring!! - You spend an hour looking
at every rock").  I was born and raised in Toronto, Ontario and my
father and I would take day trips over to the Humber River close to
Scarlet Road and Lawrence Ave.  Mostly we would find Trilobites and
Bi-valves, not much more.  At the same time my cousin, who lived in
Calgary, Alberta would send me fossils he had found around Drumheller
and in the Kicking Horse Pass in the Rocky Mountains.  It got to be
quite expensive sending pounds of rock back and forth across Canada.

In 1982 I moved from Toronto to Edmonton, Alberta (just 3.5 hours
north of the fantastic badlands of Drumheller).  During my high school
years I majored in the chemistry field (Geology, Mineralogy) but ended
up and am still working in the Computer field (29 years now). I am
employed as a Certified Disaster Recovery Planner for Alberta Blue
Cross and have done so for the last 7 years. I am also the person
responsible for all of our system(s) backups (Mainframe and all 10
UNIX servers).

My wife and I volunteered to work in the "Dinosaur World Tour - The
Greatest Show Unearthed" here in Edmonton during the summer of
1993. She as a First-aider and I as a member of the casting crew. A
dream come true for a kid from the East who never really got to see
much of Dinosaurs.  I spend one week every year fossiling in the
Drumheller area and to date have only found two teeth amongst the
hundreds of bits of fossilized bone.  The first, the tip of an
Albertosaurus pre-max and according to Phil Currie is one of the best
he has ever seen, and the second a tooth from a Duck-bill.

I like to fish, do a little hunting (more to get out than anything
else), am an avid birder, and a devoted husband and father.

Hope I didn't bore anyone too badly.

Thanks for reading.

Bill Benford
9104 - 130 Avenue
Edmonton, Alberta
T5E 0S2
403-473-8837 home
403-498-8513 work
403-425-4627 fax
bbenford@planet.eon.net

Happy Trails